Emotion is very uncomfortable for us to the point where we often joke it away. If losing a twenty could be an emotional loss how about joking about real loss. Avoidence works, at least in mixed company.
If you don't laugh you would cry but laughing is easier.

A WAGNER ride of the Valkeries to me is a Holcauster ride in an amusment park compared to the real emotions of what the Wagner loving Nazis felt. Emotions are suppressed hidden or denied.

I think we would be healthier with emotions up front and center.

When Trump jokes about Ann Frank having a 'staycation' it is for other purposes entirely.

If you were asked why you ever liked Catspaw and thought it was because he shared his knowledge freely, you missed the point. He was emotionally free.